Harris- Grade 3 Ramsay

 We had a wonderful start to our week with a visit to the Telus Sparks Science Center. Our day started with the students becoming sound engineers as we took a journey around the centre to test the different noise levels in many areas. After experimenting with how different materials absorb and reflect sounds, we put our skills to the test to create the best design that would buffer and amplify sound. The rest of our day was filled with wonder and adventure as we created our own short animation, became virtually transformed into a member of the pterosaur family, watched a digital version of Goodnight Moon and discovered how each of us, despite our nearly identical DNA, experience the world differently. We would like to extend a warm thank you to the wonderful parents who joined us and made this trip such a success! I would like to extend a thank you for all of our parents and students who joined me for parent/teacher conferences. It was a delight speaking to you and learning a littl...

Our class would like to start by saying a big "Thank you " for all the wonderful donations collected for our Veteran's Food Bank drive. It was lovely to see the generosity of our Ramsay School community.  We have been using the book, One Grain of Rice  by Demi in literacy and math to explore number patterns. This great book provided a wonderful opportunity to apply our knowledge of character traits. For example, we discussed the qualities that make a good leader and how a leader is successful. In the story, the Raja (a Hindu priest or chief) failed to fulfill his role and was consequently unjust and selfish. As with most read-alouds we also use this as an opportunity to introduce and learn new vocabulary words such as; plentiful, modest and implored.  One Grain of Rice introduced the students to the concept of an exponential growth pattern. The growth pattern for the rice that was gained by the character Rani was by doubling the previous term ( i.e. 1+1=2, 2+2=4, 4+4=8 et...